"Everybody's doing it.
Everybody's getting on the Web.
Don't be left behind!"
As the dot-com universe melds more and more into our own, civic organizations
and business groups are riding the wave by creating a strong Web presence.
Groups are finding the Internet can be as useful as newsletters in terms of
moving information, and it is generally more accessible than phone information
lines.
You don't have to call in to the office or search around, the information's
there all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Some sites feature listings of board members and officers, events, bylaws,
archived newsletters and information on how to become a member. It also has a
section that promotes community communication online. This provides people
another way to get connected. Historical links have been added, featuring a
variety of old photographs that have been archived.
This is the future.
Foresight is important to the development of your site. Stop
to think what you want your site to convey to your viewers. Listed below are
details on each web structure.
- Personal Web
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A personal web would reflect your life style, views or
opinions, family, pets, and or hobbies.
Make wedding announcements with lots of pictures, or for a new baby
arrival!
Put your Resume/Portfolio in your web or have a web just for that
purpose.
Set up a Memorial for a deceased loved one, allow others to leave
loving thoughts and prayers.
Display your family tree, your lineage! Put out a search for other
family members who you have lost contact with, or ones you have yet to
meet!
- Discussion Web
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Establish a discussion web that allows the web user to submit
comments to a discussion. You may want to include a table of contents,
search form, a page to follow threaded replies, a confirmation page so
users know their comments have been received. Threaded replies
link multiple comments on the same subject. This allows the reader to
go directly from one comment to the next on a given subject.
- Project Web
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Are you a member of an organization or on a committee? The
project web is a multipage web that is used to keep people up to date
on the progress of the project. It lists a project's staff members,
schedule, status, and provides independent page headers and footers,
an archive, a search engine, and a discussion bulletin board.
- Small Business Web
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The small business web site is structured so that it will
promote your company's business. It would contain pages that tell
customers what's new with your company, inform customers about your
products and services, feedback forms for customers responses, and a
search form that visitors to your web site can use to quickly find
specific information on your site.
Submit your site to local business directories to let people know you
are there!
Show your hours of operation and locations.
The internet is replacing the "yellow pages", get
your business out there for current and future clients to see you.
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